nroff - emulate nroff command with groff
nroff [ -CchipStUv ]
[ -dcs ] [ -Mdir ]
[ -mname ] [ -nnum ]
[ -olist ] [ -rcn ]
[ -Tname ]
[ file ... ]
The nroff script emulates the nroff command using groff. Only
ascii, latin1, utf8, and cp1047 are valid
arguments for the -T option, selecting the output encoding emitted by
grotty, groff's TTY output device. If an invalid or no -T option
is given, nroff checks the current locale to select a default output
device. It first tries the locale program, then the environment
variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG, and finally the
LESSCHARSET environment variable.
The -h and -c options are equivalent to
grotty's options -h (using tabs in the output) and -c
(using the old output scheme instead of SGR escape sequences). The
-d, -C, -i, -M, -m, -n, -o,
and -r options have the effect described in troff(1). In
addition, nroff silently ignores the options -e, -q,
and -s (which are not implemented in troff). Options -p
(pic), -t (tbl), -S (safer), and -U (unsafe) are passed
to groff. -v shows the version number.
- GROFF_BIN_PATH
- A colon separated list of directories in which to search for the
groff executable before searching in PATH. If unset, `/usr/bin' is
used.
This shell script is basically intended for use with man(1), so warnings
are suppressed. nroff-style character definitions (in the file tty-char.tmac)
are also loaded to emulate unrepresentable glyphs.
groff(1), troff(1), grotty(1)